Assuming little prior knowledge, Biogeography explains the relationships between geographic variation in biodiversity and the geological, ecological, and evolutionary processes that shape it. The Fourth Edition builds on the strengths of previous ones, illustrating ideas with examples of plants and animals across aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. INDICE: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE DISCIPLINE - The Science of Biogeography - The History of Biogeography - PART II: THE GEOGRAPHIC AND ECOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY - The Geographic Template: Visualization and Analysis of Biogeography Patterns - Distributions of Species: Ecological Foundations - Distributions of Communities - PART III: FUNDAMENTAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC PROCESSES AND EARTH HISTORY - Dispersal and Immigration - Speciation and Extinction - TheChanging Earth - Glaciation and Biogeographic Dynamics of the Pleistocene - PART IV: EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY OF LINEAGES AND BIOTAS - The Geography of Diversification - Reconstructing the History of Lineages - Reconstructing the Historyof Biotas - PART V: ECOLOGICAL BIOGEOGRAPHY - Island Biogeography: Patterns in Species Richness - Island Biogeography: Assembly and Evolution of Insular Communities - Ecological Geography of Continental and Oceanic Biotas - PART VI: CONSERVATION AND THE FRONTIERS OF BIOGEOGRAPHY - Conservation Biogeography andthe Dynamic Geography of Humanity - The Frontiers of Biogeography
- ISBN: 978-0-87893-494-2
- Editorial: Sinauer
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 560
- Fecha Publicación: 01/09/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés